Day 1.
Check-in at your hotel and free time.
Day 2.
Full Day Istanbul Old City Tour
Your driver will pick you up from hotel and you will meet your guide then visit Hagia Sophia - Blue Mosque – Hippodrome - Obelisk of Theodosius - Serpentine Column German Fountain of Wilhelm II - Lunch, Topkapi Palace. after the tour your driver will drop you off to your hotel.
Day 3.
Bosphorus Tour
Your driver will pick you up from your hotel, then you will meet with your guide. You will visit: City Walls (by ferry), Golden Horn(by ferry), Spice Bazaar (Egyptian Bazaar), Bosphorus Cruise, After cruise lunch. After lunch visit Balat, Fener, Golden Horn by car and Ayyub area climb Pierre Loti hills with cable car. End of the tour your driver will take you to your hotel.
Day 4.
Free time to explore the magnificent beauty of Kusadasi.
Day 5.
Pamukkale Full Day Tour
We will pick you up from your hotel and depart for our full day tour.
After a short leather shop and shopping tour in Kuşadası, we set out for Pamukkale.We will visit Pamukkale Travertines and Hierapolis Ancient City which is the center of natural thermal spring waters with healing properties.Due to the chemical properties in the water, pure white colored travertines and stepped water terraces
have been created on the mountain slope. It is for its resemblance to cotton piles that it is called ́Cotton Castle ́ in Turkish.
We stop on the way at a 4-star hotel for lunch and swimming thermal red waters. Then visit the travertines and the ancient city of Hierapolis which has the biggest Necropolis with 1200 gravestones in Anatolia. The sacred pool also is one of the highlights of the site. There shallow thermal waters ripple over a wonderful scattering of ancient roman ruins that lie beneath. After the tour you will be transferred to your hotel.
Day 6.
Full Day Ephesus Tour
We depart from the hotel for a tour of Ephesus Antique City and the House of Virgin Mary in Kusadasi.
You will visit Temple of Artemis (Diana), the site of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, Ephesus which is known to be the Commercial, the Religious and the Social Center of Antiquity, and one of the Highlights of any Visit in Turkey.After lunch we will visit House of Virgin Mary, probably where She spent recent years of Her life; Isa Bey Mosque, this impressive mosque from XIV. Century A.D. is unlike any other you will see in this country. After our tour, we will transfer you to Izmir airport for Antalya flight.After you arrive in Antalya, our representative will pick you up from the airport and drop you off at your hotel.
Day 7.
Full Day Antalya Tour
Day 8.
Full Day Perge- Aspendos- Side Tour
Day 9.
Antalya to Cappadocia via Konya
We pick you up early and drive to Cappadocia. On the way to stop in Konya and visit Mevlana Rumi.
Day 10.
Full Day Cappadocia Tour
Our first stop will be visiting the Pigeon Valley that hosting countless pigeons in natural pigeon houses. These pigeons contribute to live of locals with their manure to fertilize the vineyards. Uçhisar Castle and you have a time for taking a photos. Our tour will continue with Goreme Panorama which is shape of unique for Cappadocia. And then visiting the Goreme Open Air Museum. You will visit the churches, chapels and monasteries carved into the fairy chimneys from the 10th to 13th centuries A.D. with frescos painted on the walls. After lunch we will drive to Avanos, which is known for its world-renowned pottery, a craft dating back to the Hittite period. and then Jewellery work shop.
Day 11.
Full Day Cappadocia Underground City Tour
Hot Air Balloon Ride (OPTIONAL):
Get ready for a wonderful experience unique to Cappadocia!
We will pick you up from your hotel in-between at 04:30 and 05:00 am (depending on the location of your hotel) and transfer you to the balloon site where you will have the opportunity to watch the balloon being prepared for your flight as you enjoy a light breakfast snack; preparation time is generally 15-20 minutes.
Your flight will begin at sunrise, where your pilot will climb to a comfortable altitude of about 700 to 1000 meters above ground level. It is from this elevation that you will marvel at the beauty of Cappadocia below you. During certain segments of the flight our pilots are also capable of flying as low as 1 meter above the rock formations which will allow you perfect photo taking opportunities.
The Standard Flight is a total of 60 fascinating minutes. There will be a champagne celebration at end of the flight, and you will be presented with a Flight Certificate, signed by your pilot, as a souvenir reminder of this magnificent experience. You will be returned to your hotel at the end of your tour where you can rest, have breakfast, and then you may continue to your full-day Cappadocia tour
After hot air ballon ride ,We will pick you up from your hotel in-between 09:00 and 09:15 and drive to Ortahisar Castle. After Ortahisar Castle we will go on Özkonak Underground City. And we will drive to Devrent Valley which reveals many different rock formations and small fairy chimneys that form a lunar landscape or moonscape by their strange look. Our tour will continue Pasabagi (Monk's Valley) which contains some of the most striking fairy chimneys in Cappadocia with twin and triple rock caps. After lunch we will go to the Carpet weaving scholl . And then we will drive to Çavuşin which is one of the villages with the oldest historical past in the Cappadocia Region. We are going to our tour last stop is Love Valley and then drive to hotel to rest.
Day 12.
Your Flight to Istanbul and Free Time
We will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to the airport for your flight to Istanbul.
Day 13.
Flight from Istanbul
We will pick you up from your hotel and take you to Istanbul Airport and your journey back home begins. We hope your tour was a memorable one and we would like to see you in the future in one of our tours again. Have nice trip back home and thanks for choosing Latias Travel Turkey.
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